{"id":128230,"date":"2017-11-03T04:35:18","date_gmt":"2017-11-03T08:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=128230"},"modified":"2017-11-03T04:35:18","modified_gmt":"2017-11-03T08:35:18","slug":"govt-eyes-single-window-business-registration-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/11\/03\/govt-eyes-single-window-business-registration-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov\u2019t eyes single-window business registration system"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_128234\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-128234\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Ernesto_Pernia.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-128234\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Ernesto_Pernia.jpg\" alt=\"  \u201cWe are not satisfied with a single-stop-shop approach. We want to have a single-window approach so that the processing of permits and business applications will be faster,\u201d said Socioeconomic Planning Secretary Ernesto M. Pernia on Thursday. (Photo By Philippine Information Agency, Public Domain)\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Ernesto_Pernia.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Ernesto_Pernia-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Ernesto_Pernia-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-128234\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><br \/>\u201cWe are not satisfied with a single-stop-shop approach. We want to have a single-window approach so that the processing of permits and business applications will be faster,\u201d said Socioeconomic Planning Secretary Ernesto M. Pernia on Thursday. (<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=61261697\">Photo By Philippine Information Agency, Public Domain<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; The government is eyeing a \u201csingle-window approach\u201d in its bid to streamline the business registration, as it institutes reforms to further enhance the ease of doing business in the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are not satisfied with a single-stop-shop approach. We want to have a single-window approach so that the processing of permits and business applications will be faster,\u201d said Socioeconomic Planning Secretary Ernesto M. Pernia on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>With the single-window approach, businesses will only have to submit all documents to one government representative or office which will handle all related processes from there.<\/p>\n<p>The country\u2019s chief economic planner bared this initiative after the Philippines placed 113th in the World Bank Group\u2019s 2018 ranking of 190 economies in its annual ease of doing business report.<\/p>\n<p>While the country slid down from the 99th place last year, its score improved by 0.42 points from 58.32 last year to 58.74 this year.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from the single-window business registration system, Pernia said legislative reforms to improve the ease of doing business in the country are also underway with the Expanded Anti-Red Tape Act expected to be passed by early next year.<\/p>\n<p>Other legislative agenda that the government is pushing for include the amendment of the Local Government Code to address the challenges in local service delivery and the passage of the E-government Act to enable interoperability of government data and processes to increase efficiency and economy in the delivery of services.<\/p>\n<p>Pernia, also National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) Director-General, likewise reiterated the government\u2019s plan to amend certain economic provisions of the Constitution to relax restrictive foreign ownership provisions to attract more foreign investments<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; The government is eyeing a \u201csingle-window approach\u201d in its bid to streamline the business registration, as it institutes &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":128234,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[31053,31052],"class_list":["post-128230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business-registration-system","tag-single-window-approach","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}